Word: progression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quincy, who directs Harvard's affirmative action office, said that considerable progress has been made in hiring junior faculty. But he said that a "full-court effort" will be needed to make similar improvements in the ranks of senior faculty...
Cold fusion experiments are now in progress atthe National Cold Fusion Institute, a nonprofitcorporation founded recently by the University ofUtah, Texas A&M University. Brigham YoungUniversity, Stanford University, the University ofMinnesota and the Los Alamos National Laboratoryin New Mexico
ANOTHER casualty of the Faculty Committee was the Verba Report's recommendation that departmental affirmative action representatives form a standing faculty committee that would evaluate each department's progress. This committee would be headed by an associate dean for affirmative action. With regular meetings and a focused agenda, this committee might have been the engine of recruiting reform at Harvard...
...Gramm- Rudman is teetering on the verge of becoming more a part of the problem than a part of the solution." Sasser says the law has the Government keeping two sets of books: one devised to meet Gramm-Rudman, "which is a useful fiction to give the illusion of progress," and another that shows the real deficit. The real deficit for fiscal 1990 will not be $110 billion but more like $230 billion. Fancy bookkeeping like a $65 billion loan from the Social Security trust fund to the Treasury keeps the total down...
According to Mas-Colell, progress will not be achieved on affirmative action with strident rhetoric or draconian penalties, but through quiet, behind-the-scenes maneuvering...